Current name. A junior synonym of Empis ( Polyblepharis) subciliata Loew, 1871.
Type locality (by lectotype fixation): Russia, Kamchatka, “Bolscherjetsk” [=Ust-Bolscheretsk].
Notes on the type series. Frey described this species after the female sex only. He noted the following material: “ 2 ♀, Kamtchatka (Malaise). Ausserdem im Museum zu Helsingfors 1 ♀ von Kamtchatka: Bolscherjetsk (Wuoren- taus)”.
Type material examined. PARALECTOTYPES: Kamtschatka, Malaise; Spec. typ.; Empis kamtschatica [sic!] Frey [hand-written by Frey], Frey det. ( 1 ♀, NHRS). Kamtschatka, Malaise ( 1 ♀, NHRS).
Remarks. Chvála & Wagner (1989) synonymised E. kamtchatica with E. subciliata Loew. Later Chvála (1999: 205) commented on this synonymy. He noted a single female specimen of E. kamtchatica in MZH, and probably based on the Frey type label, assumed erroneously that this specimen was the holotype. I consider Chvála’s statement as a lectotype fixation ( sensu O’Hara & Cerretti (2016). Although I could not examine the lectotype. I have studied two paralectotypes from NHRS and can confirm that they agree with Frey’s description and are identical with E. subciliata.